Sunday, May 24, 2015

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24 May 2015

City of Berkeley to require cellphone sellers to warn of possible radiation risks

Berkeley lawmakers voted this week to require cellphone retailers to provide customers with a notice on the potential health hazards of carrying their device too close to their bodies, making the progressive California city the first in the nation to have wireless warnings if the law is allowed to go into effect in July.

The publishers of the Larousse Dictionary in France, which is THE authoritative dictionary of the French language, has included <électrosensibilité> "EHS" on the list of its 150 new words for its 2016 edition.

De Raadt, a retired engineer, said they moved to the Osoyoos area in 2013 to get away from smart meters at their former home in Langley, where his wife suffered from heart palpitations and weakness they attributed to electromagnetic radiation.

The utility is sending its technicians to check on outdoor smart meters to ensure that they aren't within three metres of outside propane tanks - the kind attached to your building, not attached to your barbecue.

Many people currently acutely sensitive to RF/EMF can feel virtually each signal. Smart meters in Maine while only transmitting for a short total time of perhaps a few minutes, can transmit upwards of 170,000 micro-bursts per day in no regular pattern. That's the equivalent of one signal every 2 seconds. If this creates an adverse effect whether pain or vertigo, it is nothing less than torture, a word often used to describe RF exposure symptoms.

Four years ago, federal agents raided the home and Portland city office of McCoy and filed bribery and tax evasion charges. They alleged he had taken money and travel favours in exchange for getting the city to install a Florida company's smart meters, designed to slash the labour and maintenance costs involved in collecting parking fees.

The government says Levey paid McCoy $56,000 in phoney consultant fees and promised $137,000 more, at $100 a meter, for recommending Levey's products to other cities. That was to be payable after McCoy left city employment.

The public will be able to complain to the Ontario Ombudsman about school boards as of September 1, 2015, and about municipalities and universities as of January 1, 2016, now that the dates have been proclaimed for the relevant sections of the Public Sector and MPP Accountability and Transparency Act to come into force.

Passed by the legislative assembly on December 9, 2014, the act  also known as "Bill 8"  extends Ombudsman scrutiny to the so-called "MUSH sector" for the first time in the office's 40-year history.

"We look forward to bringing the same level of oversight to municipalities, universities and school boards as we always have to provincial organizations," said Ontario Ombudsman André Marin. The ombudsman's office has reached out to these sectors and will release more details in the coming weeks.

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We haven't made a provision for WiFi and internet connectivity for safety reasons," said Pallavi Darade, Additional Municipal Commissioner in-charge of education. "The tablets will come fully-preloaded with the syllabus and other features like e-book reader and applications.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning for two of Hospira's infusion pump systems.

The agency noted that the discovery of security vulnerabilities in both the LifeCare PCA3 and PCA5.

The systems, used to delivery therapeutic and anesthetic medications,can be run remotely via the wireless network at a hospital. An independent researcher discovered vulnerabilities that, if exploited, could interfere with treatment and could be potentially life-threatening.

WEEP News

by: Martin Weatherall

As a Canadian independent foundation, WEEP acts as an umbrella organization and focuses on progressive initiatives that bring increased awareness, policy change, and entrepreneurial activity around the issues of safe Electro Magnetic emissions.

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